May 2006
March 2006
elementropy
Mark Steyn Bio
USA: Legalize the 'Illegals'
There is no immigration crisis — other than the one created by a small but vocal stripe of opportunist politicians, media demagogues and freelance xenophobes.
February 2006
Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war
Just over three years ago, as the nation readied for war with Iraq, elementary school teacher Deb Mayer stood in front of her class and uttered the word that would get her blacklisted from her profession - 'Peace'
The Blog | Michelle Pilecki: The Huffington Post
Arms-control treaties, nuclear proliferation, weapons of mass destruction -- in dealing with these issues, does the State Department need career professionals who know what they're talking about? Apparently not
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
Cindy Sheehan's side of the story. If true, this is just very sad for our country
Bloggerheads- Reactions to State Of The Union 2006
Reactions to Bush's State Of The Union 2006 Address from around the blogs
January 2006
Bush has backward view of dissent
Did Bush deliberately deceive the American people to justify the war in Iraq? I don't know...and neither do you. But here's what we do know: The president doesn't think we should be asking in the first place. And that might be the biggest scandal of all.
The Smirking Chimp: Bush thinks he's a war leader like Lincoln:
History will look back on George Bush as a justifiably insecure man who went to war to aggrandize himself. Lincoln was a skilled debater and a thoughtful, eloquent speaker; Bush can barely string single-syllable words into a coherent sentence.
Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons?
History, Ismael Reed once said, is the story of warfare between secret societies. I'm not ready to go that far, but I think it's fair to say the history of U.S. foreign policy over the past forty years has been the story of the war between two not-so-secr
AMERICAblog:
A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
November 2005
Full Marx for George Bush by John Laughland
libertarian analysis that Bush has marxists supporting him ideologically and practically
August 2005
America's Big Malignant Tumor /
Libs are salivating that Karl Rove might go down. But hasn't the worst cancer already spread?
July 2005
May 2005
The Quagmire: As the Iraq War Drags on, it's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vietnam
. Two years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is perched on the brink of civil war. Months after the election, the new Iraqi government remains hunkered down inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, surviving only because it is defended by thousands of U.S
April 2005
Ian Rutledge in the Financial Times:
US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it
Speech by Cindy Sheehan made at Riverside Church -- where Martin Luther King gave his "Beloved Community" speech
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs....gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far.
March 2005
The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Democratic Underground
Yet another list from DU. Well they're spoilt for choice aren't they?
February 2005
Press Impostor
How is it that an administration that screened thousands of people for attendance at Bush campaign rallies repeatedly let a fake reporter into the sanctorum of the White House pressroom under a false name? Who was running that background check?
January 2005
Ignore the vanity of the Bushites, America's might is draining away: Matthew Parris
For many decades America’s share of the world’s economic output has been in decline. America’s modesty in 1945 understated its muscle, Bushite vanity overstates it today.
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